So, the cheap money has and will
continue to flow. The logic is infallible. If money costs little to
nothing, why not invest it in equities of cash rich corporations with
a fantastic up side when the economy recovers?

Is the small investor so dumb he and
she doesn't get this?

No, it's not that individual investors
are risk adverse. There's something else. What could it be?

The curtain that hid the Wall Street
fraud has fallen with a $33 billion thud.

Those of us trying to save for college or retirement are afraid of theft. Past stealing, present
stealing and future stealing.

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Small investors have finally woken up
and smelled the putrid coffee that's been simmering for decades. Long
term investing fail to yield anything but loses. But we've been told over and over again that you cannot time the market.

What's been
going on? Why does Wall Street have all the money? What do these
people do that they deserve more than single digit revenues from the
GDP? Who was looking out for us?

Chaz Valenza is writer and small business owner in New Jersey. He earned his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. His current feature film project is "Single Point Failure" an insider's account of how the Reagan Administration (more...)